PORTRAIT – The brilliant Defense engineer found herself center stage in September 2022 by becoming the first woman to direct Polytechnique.
Solving a linear differential equation does not scare him. But posing in front of a photographer… “With your arms crossed, do you think so? It’s closed, isn’t it?”request Laura Chaubardslightly forced smile. On the Palaiseau campus, the director of Polytechnique does not pretend to be in her element. “I don’t do it often”she sighs, returning to her office.
However, Laura Chaubard is not an introvert. Black pants, pink jacket and loose hair, the 44-year-old director rather displays the confidence of a brilliant woman of her time. But when it comes to her, discretion is essential. As if, like a good soldier, the weapons engineer was hiding behind the prestigious school that she has run for two years now.
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A school with which it has a unique history. “My family predisposed me more to a normal school, like my mother”she emphasizes. In his parents’ house in Malakoff…
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